Manipulating Topological Polaritons in Optomechanical Ladders

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Autori principali: Wu, Jia-Kang, Xu, Xun-Wei, Jing, Hui, Kuang, Le-Man, Nori, Franco, Liao, Jie-Qiao
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author Wu, Jia-Kang
Xu, Xun-Wei
Jing, Hui
Kuang, Le-Man
Nori, Franco
Liao, Jie-Qiao
author_facet Wu, Jia-Kang
Xu, Xun-Wei
Jing, Hui
Kuang, Le-Man
Nori, Franco
Liao, Jie-Qiao
contents We propose to manipulate topological polaritons in optomechanical ladders consisting of an optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain and a mechanical SSH chain connected through optomechanical (interchain) interactions. We show that the topological phase diagrams are divided into six areas by four boundaries and that there are four topological phases characterized by the Berry phases. We find that a topologically nontrivial phase of the polaritons is generated by the optomechanical interaction between the optical and mechanical SSH chains even though they are both in the topologically trivial phases. Counter-intuitively, six edge states appear in one of the topological phases with only two topological nontrivial bands, and some edge states are localized near but not at the boundaries of an open-boundary ladder. Moreover, a two-dimensional Chern insulator with higher Chern numbers is simulated by introducing proper periodical adiabatic modulations of the driving amplitude and frequency. Our work not only opens a route towards topological polaritons manipulation by optomachanical interactions, but also will exert a far-reaching influence on designing topologically protected polaritonic devices.
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spellingShingle Manipulating Topological Polaritons in Optomechanical Ladders
Wu, Jia-Kang
Xu, Xun-Wei
Jing, Hui
Kuang, Le-Man
Nori, Franco
Liao, Jie-Qiao
Quantum Physics
We propose to manipulate topological polaritons in optomechanical ladders consisting of an optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain and a mechanical SSH chain connected through optomechanical (interchain) interactions. We show that the topological phase diagrams are divided into six areas by four boundaries and that there are four topological phases characterized by the Berry phases. We find that a topologically nontrivial phase of the polaritons is generated by the optomechanical interaction between the optical and mechanical SSH chains even though they are both in the topologically trivial phases. Counter-intuitively, six edge states appear in one of the topological phases with only two topological nontrivial bands, and some edge states are localized near but not at the boundaries of an open-boundary ladder. Moreover, a two-dimensional Chern insulator with higher Chern numbers is simulated by introducing proper periodical adiabatic modulations of the driving amplitude and frequency. Our work not only opens a route towards topological polaritons manipulation by optomachanical interactions, but also will exert a far-reaching influence on designing topologically protected polaritonic devices.
title Manipulating Topological Polaritons in Optomechanical Ladders
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05753